The shark may have been a juvenile white shark, Edelbrock said, but officials are waiting for scientists to confirm that. The woman was treated at a hospital for puncture and laceration wounds to her upper right thigh, according to Jon Edelbrock, lifeguard chief for the city of Del Mar. Well, attention was snapped back to matters at hand, yesterday, as a swimmer was attacked by a Great White shark in neighboring Del Mar. All cooperation instantly stopped as surfers began sizing each other up, flexing, back-paddling, trying to damage each other’s self-esteem.
The actress, who hails from typically subdued Encinitas, was rumored to be carrying on with the handsomest man in Hollywood and typically taciturn locals began jibber-jabbering in the Swamis, Cardiff Reef, Beacons lineups about maybe catching a glimpse Pitt at Leucadia Pizza or Captain Kenos, trading notes, agreeing to stake out The Bier Garden at different times so as not to miss the star.Īlas, it turns out the rumors were false and traditionally happy locals fell into the depths of despair until realizing they themselves might just have a shot at EmRata. San Diego area surfers, not accustomed to much flare, have been in quite a state these past few weeks, swinging back and forth from wildly ecstatic to troubled and depressed then back again after it was first reported famous first daughter Emily Ratajkowski, newly single, was possibly dating Brad Pitt. As markets demand a smaller pool with a higher wave rate, KSWC is sticking to its guns. And like Blackberry, KSWC is stubbornly hanging onto its original blueprint. Much like Blackberry, KSWC pioneered a new technology – in this case a wave that could mimic the power of the ocean. After an initial aversion to transition with the market trends and a far-too-late attempt to enter the smartphone market, the Blackberry cell phone finally sputtered to an inevitable death with its final model in 2018. Their complacency spelled the beginning of the end. Then came the iPhone with its touchscreen technology.īlackberry insisted on sticking with a keyboard. They had an industry-leading 43% of the market share in the US at their peak. I liken the position of Slater’s pool to the Blackberry cell phone circa 2010.īlackberry was a pioneer in the cell phone space and even the preferred option of then US president Barack Obama. Surfers are already calling it the most high-performance wave on earth.Īuthor of the comprehensive story, Evan Quarnstrom, posits, When the developers of that wild housing estate built around a pool near São Paulo, Praia da Grama and Boa Vista Village, looked at the various techs, they dug the Kelly pool but came to the same conclusion as everyone else, it don’t have the commercial potential of its rivals.Īnd that wild little double shot air combo? No way the Slater pool touches that. Meanwhile, Wavegarden, Perfect Surf and Endless Surf, smaller, modular tech, dominate the market.
“What happens time after time is once people start to dig into the financial feasibility and see the limited capacity, the large footprint of the venue, the scale of civil construction, and the awkwardness of the pool shape to build around, KSWC quickly gets dismissed in most cases.” Skip Taylor, a Partner of Surf Park Management told wavepool mag, the reason there hadn’t been another Slater tank built since it’s unveiling in December 2015 was that, Therefore, a terrific surprise this morning when a wavepool expert slammed the Kelly Slater Wave Co pool as “obsolete the day it was unveiled.” I rode the joint in 2017, nine waves lassoed, and have yet to sight or command a wave, even close to as good. If you ever have the good fortune to grace the fabled Kelly Slater wavepool in Lemoore, California, you will be awed by its size, the shore where the right extinguishes itself after one minute of riding barely able to be seen, even with squinted eyes.
And like Blackberry, KSWC is stubbornly hanging onto its original blueprint." "Much like Blackberry, KSWC pioneered a new technology.
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